Author: OurCrowd

OurCrowd’s portfolio company The Bouqs featured in TechCrunch

Feb 3, 2016 | ,

Leading technology website, TechCrunch, featured OurCrowd’s portfolio company The Bouqs. The company is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform for purchasing flowers, that uses technology to restructure the supply chain from A to Z. We’re a week and a half away from Valentine’s Day, one of the biggest days for flower purchases everywhere and probably the best time for The Bouqs, an on-demand-ish flower startup to announce it pulled in $12 million in Series B financing. The Bouqs is not a name that rolls off the tongue, but it promises better pricing and next day shipping with flowers that last longer. The Bouqs raised $415,004 from OurCrowd investors in December 2015. Read more on...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Billguard featured in The Times of Israel

Feb 3, 2016 | ,

OurCrowd’s portfolio company BillGuard was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. BillGuard identifies fraud and “grey” charges, which cost consumers over $25B annually, by analyzing crowdsourcing transaction data from its millions-strong user base. Many Israeli entrepreneurs ask themselves if they have what it takes to succeed in Silicon Valley. But perhaps the question is whether or not entrepreneurs from the US have what it takes to make it in Israel. “The acquisition of BillGuard has been a real eye-opener,” said Aaron Vermut, CEO of San Francisco-based Prosper, who is in Israel for the first time in three decades to visit his company’s new Israeli subsidiary, which tracks credit card spending and monitoring. BillGuard raised $3,896,064 from OurCrowd investors in August 2014. Read more on The Times of Israel...

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Introducing OurCrowd Continuity Fund (OC²): A new investment offering

Introducing OurCrowd Continuity Fund (OC²): A new investment offering

Feb 3, 2016 | ,

OurCrowd is proud to announce the launch of its OurCrowd Continuity Fund (OC2), a special opportunities fund devised to take advantage of preemptive rights in select follow-on rounds for portfolio companies. OC2 has an automated investing process, only investing in follow-on, up-rounds led by top venture capital and strategic investors. The dynamics of startup growth and venture investing is such that preemptive rights are a critically valuable asset for being able to invest in breakout stars, and OC2 is structured to give its investors first access to unexercised preemptive rights. Four reasons why we’re excited about launching OC2 Access to otherwise limited opportunities: As an investor, one of your most valuable assets is gaining a seat at the table to invest in the follow-on rounds of your companies that emerge to be the biggest winners. Pro rata rights are not about downside protection, they are about guaranteeing you the right not to be crowded out of highly competitive future financing rounds for your companies. OC2 is opportunistically leveraging OurCrowd’s pro rata rights across its 90+ portfolio companies to gain access to...

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